If there’s something that goes together even better than peanut butter and chocolate, it’s vampires and werewolves. Well, the smash hit One Night Werewolf has released a new, stand-alone version of the game entitled One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Vampire. Guess what it adds? For three to ten players, Vampire assigns various roles to all the players, including the vampire, cupid, the assassin, and more, then asking players to deduce who the vampire is. Adding everyone in there search are special powers that can be utilized to suss out the nefarious bloodsucker!

Tonto Cuore is all about the Manga cheesecake. Yes, the lady maids players are collecting in this deck building game are well endowed and scantily dressed, but, if you can look past that, the gameplay is superb. Tonto Cuore Oktoberfest is the newest expansion/stand-alone version of the game, containing over two hundred cards themed with drinking, schnitzel, and barroom songs! Combine the cards with the base game or play them alone, either way Oktoberfest is ready-to-play for two to four players!

Last weekend was the prerelease, so that means this weekend is the release of Oath of the Gatewatch, the newest set for Magic the Gathering. Expanding on and working in conjunction with the Battle for Zendikar set, Oath of the Gatewatch, like all new Magic releases, launches with assorted buying options. First up, the standard booster packs contains fifteen randomly assorted cards from the second. Second, Intro Packs provide a completely build sixty card deck and new booster packs, making it the perfect entry point for new players. Third, there are Fat Packs that contains nine booster packs, a full-art deck box, one hundred mana, a spin-down counter, and a booklet that lists all the cards in the set. By the way, the Fat Packs are already out of print and also contain full art lands, two factors that will cause them to rapidly increase in price!

Everyone’s worried about Who Watches the Watchmen, but the real question should be: Who Plays the Watchmen? A new Crossover Pack for the popular DC Deck Building Game, Watchmen adds six new playable characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s landmark miniseries to any base version of the game. In addition to these new characters, the expansion also adds a new mechanic that generate suspicion within the gameplay.

Carcassonne: Over Hill and Dale is a rustic new variant of the original Carcassonne tile laying game that includes new decisions to be made and tactics to be enacted. As players lay tiles, connecting roads and landscaping gardens, they will also be able to plant and harvest crops to gain further points. As with other games in the Carcassonne series, Over Hill and Dale is easy to teach to younger or new players, making it a perfect introductory game experience for families.

Empires continue to be build in the new expansion for Roll for the Galaxy. Roll for the Galaxy: Ambition explores sets of new factions that have been added to the game, accompanied by new strategies and game tiles. New Leader and Entrepreneur dice are also added to the existing dice pile, offering possibilities to recruit workers and other factions that can assist in growing your empire.

There are few products that have Neil Gaiman‘s name plastered on them that are not worth a look. A Study in Emerald is definitely in the “worth a look” category! Based off the award winning short story by Gaiman, the A Study in Emerald board game throws players into the author’s fictional world, one that combines Sherlock Holmes and H.P. Lovecraft. The Old Ones have taken over the Earth, running it for centuries, but a dedicated few are inclined to resist and restore power to the people. Players will control those “Restorationists” as they attempt to overturn the Old Ones’ rule with covert assassinations and attacks. Whether you use dynamite or espionage, the goal is to restore power to humankind.

Built out of the ruins of the popular Heroscape miniature battle game, Arena of the Planeswalkers takes the Magic the Gathering mythos and uses it to provide miniature characters based off of Magic cards that can be pitted against each other. Battle for Zendikar is the first expansion for the base game, including entirely new Planewalkers, heroes, and squads, as well as a special battlefield scenario to play through. Bringing that scenario to life is an additional gameboard expansion that can connect to the previous board. Ob Nixilis and Kiora are the two featured Planeswalkers in this set.

Stop a fanatical cult from returning a Dark Pharaoh to power in 1920s Egypt in the new Eldritch Horror expansion, Under the Pyramids. This expansion features an Egypt side board enabling invetigators to explore the nation’s bustling cities, barren deserts, and mysterious archaeological sites. Eight intrepid new investigators join the struggle against the Ancient Ones, aided by invaluable Relics, powerful Glamour Spells, and legendary allies including the archaeologist Enoch Bowen and the illusionist Erich Weiss.

Both a tile laying and card collection game, Lanterns the Harvest Festival will be the next easy-to-learn, but endlessly playable game you and your friends get addicted to. In the game, players will be competing as artisans who are attempting to plan a beautiful lantern display on the palace lake. Each player will take turns laying down tiles with assorted arrangements of different colored lanterns, attempting to connect a portion of the tile with another, matching tile. By doing so, players will also earn lantern cards that can be collected to win the game. For a limited time, anyone who purchases the game at Pulp Fiction will also receive a promo tile packet!

Order up! Diner is a fast-paced game about waiters in a competition to make the most money in tips. Players compete to create orders (cards that link together) that, ultimately, cost the most money. Diner won the Dice Hate Me Games 54-card Challenge, which is a competition where game designers must create a game using only 54 cards and minimal components.

The high seas are only semi-cooperative, or, at least, that’s the case with Jolly Roger. A game for four to ten players, Jolly Roger is set aboard a scurvy pirate ship where players take on the roles of crew and captain. At the beginning of each game, a player is elected captain. She will then lead the rest of the players into a battle where they will attempt to steal loot. Spoils are split up among players, and can be hidden safely away on Treasure Island, but if a certain crew member feels they aren’t getting an even share, they can always instigate a mutiny.

While it may sound ominously like some version of Saw, The Game from IDW is a spin on the cooperative card game where players can not openly communicate with each other. Players each have a hand of numerical cards, ranging from 0-100, and must stack them in one of four separate piles. The goal is to order them as close to ascending and descending orders as possible, which is where the lack of communication causes problems. A 2015 Spiel Des Jahres nominee, IDW hopes that you will not hate The Game, but hate player.

The holidays are upon us, and that means Wizards of the Coast is getting into the present buying spirit. Like the last three years, Magic the Gathering has just released a new Holiday Gift Box. This year, the Battle for Zendikar Gift Box includes five booster packs, dividers, twenty full-art lands, dividers, a promo card, and, of course, the titular 2,000 count card box.

Creator of the popular Mouse Guard comic, David Petersen, has branched into the realm of board games with Swords and Strongholds. A less intensive version of chess, Swords and Strongholds is derived from the Mouse Guard universe and features Petersen’s distinct artwork. A head-to-head game, players must capture all four of their opponent’s pawns or build a stronghold in either player’s back corner. Also out this week is an updated, boxed edition of the Mouse Guard RPG. This Mouse Guard RPG Boxed Set contains a core rulebook, GM screen, dice, maps, action cards, and other essential components.

Spinning out of the popular novel series (and less popular film), Ender’s Game: Battle School the Board Game adapts the head-to-head wargames from the book. Each player controls an army that is doing battle in an anti-grav arena. Soldiers can be moved across the battlefield, but will continue moving unless they are stopped by debris or an opponent, due to the anti-grav. Victory can be attained by freezing your opponent’s gates or commander.

Following hotly on the heels the Superfight base game are a plethora of expansion decks. This weekend, Pulp received not one, not two, but all nine of the Superfight expansion decks! These include a range of cards that can be added to the base game, each distinguished by theme. So, you can go with the anime deck or maybe the adult content deck or, if you’re feeling particularly brutal, the Walking Dead deck!

Not quite Homer’s epic, Equestrian Odysseys is the newest My Little Pony CCG set to be released! In this set, cards are themed around quests that have been assigned by Cutie Map. Fresh new friends like Sugar Belle and The Smooze join all your favorites, and together you’ll battle the Bugbear, journey to Griffonstone, and even save Our Town from new evil-doer Starlight Glimmer. Alongside the traditional booster packs, there are also two new Theme Decks for Equestrian Odysseys, including Jam Session and Takin’ Care of Business.

Following on the heels of MtG Origins, the newest Duel Deck is out this weekend! Zendikar vs. Eldrazi pits the forces of the former against the creatures of the latter. Within the two complete decks included in the box, there are a number of rare, powerful cards including a new art reprint of Avenger of Zendikar and Primal Command as well as a reprint of It That Betrays. Outside of that, the Zendikar deck includes cards that will appear in the upcoming Battle for Zendikar set.

Conquest of Speros is a quick playing game of area control and resource domination for two to four players. In the game, four competing races work to exercise their dominance over the landscape and to control the export of iron, crystal, and gold as well as securing ownership of the powerful Ancient Artifacts buried from long ago. Players lead generals and their minions in order to secure lands and battle opponents.

Two expansions drop this weekend for the video game influenced World of Indines games. First up is Devastation of Indines, which provides an array of options to expand and enhance your BattleCon game. These include thirty alternate costumes, each possessing their own abilities, and the characters Borneo and Juto. Also out is the Light and Shadow expansion, containing sixty EX and Almighty fighters.

Firefly Shiny Dice is the first and only “Press your Luck” style dice game set in the Firefly universe. Roll up, get a mission and complete as many challenges as you can before your luck runs out. The further you go, the greater the risk but greater the reward if you succeed. Get a crew, get a mission, keep flying.

Wealth has come to Machi Koro in the game’s most recent expansion, Millionaire’s Row. Millionaire’s Row adds thirteen new, powerful establishment cards. With a grand total of forty plus landmarks and establishments, the variability is endless. It can also be combined with Machi Koro: Harbor Expansion for an even bigger, bustling city.

Always hotly awaited, the next wave of Star Wars X-Wing ships is thrusting out of lightspeed this weekend. Including three new smaller ships and one oversized ship, this wave is a force to be reckoned with. To start with, Bossk’s cruiser the Hound’s Tooth is a major addition to anyone’s Scum faction, as the ship has the capability to launch a smaller ship when it is destroyed. Also out are the K-Wing, Tie Punisher, and the Kihraxz Fighter.

Finally, one of this year’s Gen Con sensations, New York 1901, has hit shelves! In New York 1901, players will compete to construct the iconic buildings dotting the New York skyline. On each turn, players will have the option to purchase real estate in order to later construct buildings or to demolish a pre-existing building in order to rebuild on its empty lot. One of the catches, however, is that building tiles each have a unique shape, one that will need to conform to the real estate you’re wishing to build on. Outside of the mechanics, the game is vibrant, family friendly, and pleasingly designed. A must buy for this year.

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